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Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop

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225 points cspags | 2 comments | 01 Dec 25 01:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.516s | source
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procaryote ◴[07 Dec 25 08:30 UTC] No.46180134[source]▶
The framework model is the reasonable approach to people being finnicky about their laptop specs. You can't sustain "I want it just so" and "it needs to be a cnc-machined glued together brick, engineered to the last gramme" at the same time, without a step change in how we build hardware, but the framework comes pretty close

If linux power management got a bit better, and there was a good arm chip, it would be a great machine. Now it's just pretty good

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bn-l ◴[07 Dec 25 18:06 UTC] No.46183652[source]▶
But the trackpad, the rigidity, the screen wobble, the battery life.

It’s annoying. I wish I could just buy a framework and stop this boring chore. But there’s nothing out there right now.

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1. schmorptron ◴[09 Dec 25 00:54 UTC] No.46199965[source]▶
I wonder if the rigidity could be improved while staying modular, maybe just use many more screws? I don't mind undoing more than 5 screws for the bottom to come off, make it 20 and it's still totally fine.
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2. rangestransform ◴[09 Dec 25 17:05 UTC] No.46207427[source]▶
IIRC from one of their videos, they mentioned that they deliberately use cast aluminium instead of CNC machined like the macbook. If they sacrifice build quality for sustainability deliberately, I don't see how they could compete with Apple.